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Artificial Intelligence

The field of building computer systems that perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, such as understanding language, recognising images or making decisions.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is the broad discipline of designing software that can carry out tasks associated with human cognition. Modern AI is mostly built on machine learning, where a system learns patterns from data rather than following hand-written rules. It covers everything from recommendation systems and speech recognition to the large language models used in chatbots and coding assistants. The term describes a goal and a research field, not one specific technology.

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Machine Learning

A branch of AI in which models learn patterns from data instead of being explicitly programmed with rules.

Generative AI

AI that creates new content such as text, images, audio or video.

Natural Language Processing

The branch of AI concerned with understanding and generating human language.

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